Armenian Genocide motion to be considered in Bulgarian Parliament next week
20:05 / 03/19/2010
The draft resolution on Armenian Genocide was introduced into Bulgarian Parliament. NEWS.am posts unofficial translation of the motion to be considered next week.
The genocide against Armenian people is one of the most portentous crimes against humanity in the modern history. In order to realize the full depth of the massacres perpetrated against Armenian people by Turkish authorities in the beginning of the 20th century, it should be taken into account that in essence, it is an ill-veiled, but goal-directed policy aiming at the extermination of Armenian ethnos within the bounds of its historical residence-from Ararat to Anatolia. Turkish Government intended to place numerous Muslim refugees from Balkans there.
In this respect, the seemingly unrelated acts of violence against Armenians from 1915-1917 were a carefully thought up plan by Turkish authorities meant to displacement of Armenians with escort convoy, the committed slaughter and torture both by regular troops and desperados, including pogroms, raping, robbery, dispossession of land and property of the peaceful Armenian population. This is a system of physical, economic and moral destruction of Armenian ethnos killing over one and a half million Armenians within several months.
Based on the mentioned facts, National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, admitting the cogency of the facts proving the committed extermination of 1.500.000 Armenians by Ottoman Empire authorities in 1915-17, considering the violence against Armenians during the World War I is recognized by the European Parliament and a number of EU members-Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, France as genocide, condemning the genocide of the Armenian population,
The genocide against Armenian people is one of the most portentous crimes against humanity in the modern history. In order to realize the full depth of the massacres perpetrated against Armenian people by Turkish authorities in the beginning of the 20th century, it should be taken into account that in essence, it is an ill-veiled, but goal-directed policy aiming at the extermination of Armenian ethnos within the bounds of its historical residence-from Ararat to Anatolia. Turkish Government intended to place numerous Muslim refugees from Balkans there.
In this respect, the seemingly unrelated acts of violence against Armenians from 1915-1917 were a carefully thought up plan by Turkish authorities meant to displacement of Armenians with escort convoy, the committed slaughter and torture both by regular troops and desperados, including pogroms, raping, robbery, dispossession of land and property of the peaceful Armenian population. This is a system of physical, economic and moral destruction of Armenian ethnos killing over one and a half million Armenians within several months.
Based on the mentioned facts, National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, admitting the cogency of the facts proving the committed extermination of 1.500.000 Armenians by Ottoman Empire authorities in 1915-17, considering the violence against Armenians during the World War I is recognized by the European Parliament and a number of EU members-Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, France as genocide, condemning the genocide of the Armenian population,
Declares:
1. Expresses its dissent with official position of Turkish Government, directed towards the negation of the purposive violence against Armenian nation committed in 1915-1917.
2. Urges the Republic of Turkey to review its stance on the historic reality during the World War I
3. Term the forcible displacement-the extermination of the Armenian people under Ottoman Empire as Genocide
4. Announces the necessity of mandatory unbiased reporting of the historical events indicated in the documents, publications, public addresses of all state institutions, political organizations, mass media of the Republic of Bulgaria.
5. Admits that protection of monuments of Bulgarian and Armenian architectural-religious heritage on the territory of Turkey should be considered as part of a broader policy of preservation of cultural heritage of European civilization.
6. Demands that in the course of the talks on Turkey’s membership to EU, the stance of Bulgarian Government be conditioned by the recognition of Armenian Genocide by Turkey.
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